[Celerity]

I’m really scratching my head with this flu outbreak.

I need details and questions answered. How are these people dying within a few days - or even within 24 hours - of getting the flu ?!

Is their heart stopping or something ? I need to know what happens with this flu that is so different than any other flu I’ve suffered.

I haven’t taken my family out of the house in 2 weeks - literally - because everyone is sick with this. I wear a mask at the store and have sequestered the family. This is scary stuff !

It’s like Captain Trips or something.

[EnquiringMind]

I think they’re dying of sepsis. That’s when your body over reacts to the threat of illness and produces far too many white blood cells that suffocate major organs . Happens fast.

[iontheball]

I need details and questions answered. How are these people dying within a few days - or even within 24 hours - of getting the flu ?!
_________________________________________
I only know what I have observed. It's mainly a respiratory issue. It behaves a lot like whooping cough. It starts with aches and pains and fever, quickly progresses to a cough and bronchial congestion. The cough worsens to where you are spontaneously coughing your guts out to where you lose your breath and whoop for air. The extreme coughing may damage the bronchial tubes where sepsis can set in or the bronchial congestion may progress to pneumonia. The struggle places extreme stress on your heart and other organs. The after affects include a cough and congestion, which may last for weeks.

[lastchance]

Sepsis.

[familyop]

The H3N2 A flu is leaving its victims more open than usual to bacterial infections in airways and/or other parts of their bodies, causing sepsis, pneumonia and/or heart attacks.

[Yaelle]

Younger people have a stronger immune system. So their bodies attack the virus so strongly that a cytokine storm erupts. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_release_syndrome

[Cvengr]

It really isn’t a flu. You get chills and sweats, on coming distinguished by an incessant post nasal drip. Lasts or lingers about 10-1/2 weeks. Initially appears to only last maybe 7-10 days with diminished strength. Handles by OTC and vitamins, lot of cough drops, maybe Robitussin DM or NyQuil, or an antihistamine.

2nd stage distinguished by froth in the phligm and loosing one’s breath from coughing. Pneumonia type symptoms.

If not a strong person, the weakness can allow the froth to lead to asphyxiation.

Easily seen where toddlers and elderly might not survive after about a month.

Penicillin routines might alleviate secondary symptoms, but the original comes back a month or so later.